[Rockhounds] Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.

[Alan Goldstein]

I visited the late, great, FCNM almost ten years ago at an NPS-sponsored paleontology conference. (Have a bunch of pictures...) The highway department dug up more fossil cycads during road improvements on US 18 that bisects the land. Unfortunately, no one knew about it until the project was almost complete, so only a small number of the fossils were salvaged. I'm not sure where they ended up, maybe the Smithsonian. See https://www.nps.gov/articles/fossil-cycad-national-monument.htm or https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2274104 for a more info.

Alan G.

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